Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Paraguay and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Adolescents to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skriet,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Monolake,
Lungfish,
Mantronix,
Mo-Dettes,
Jerry's Kids,
Scientists,
Groovy Waters,
Funkadelic,
OOIOO,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Real Kids,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Idris Muhammad,
Bill Near,
Pet Shop Boys,
Maleditus Sound,
H. Thieme,
Todd Terry,
AZ,
Bobby Byrd,
Moby Grape,
The Buckinghams,
Buzzcocks,
Sister Nancy,
Soft Machine,
Lightning Bolt,
Eddi Front,
kango's stein massive,
The Detroit Cobras,
Minnie Riperton,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dawn Penn,
Franke,
Barbara Tucker,
cv313,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bobby Sherman,
James White and The Blacks,
the Sonics,
Ultra Naté,
Nick Fraelich,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gerry Rafferty,
Al Stewart,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Invisible,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rosa Yemen,
Patti Smith,
Robert Görl,
Rhythm & Sound,
Qualms,
Interpol,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Litter,
Susan Cadogan,
Avey Tare,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.